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The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them

Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want.

Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.

It is positively spooky how the physicist finds the mathematician has been there before him or her.

If (the antiproton) had not been discovered, the foundations of physics really would have crumbled.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.

Curiosity is a delicate little plant that, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom.

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers.

The same thinking that has led you to where you are is not going to lead you to where you want to go.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Science doesn't make it impossible to believe in God, it just makes it possible not to believe in God

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in doing you bring everything to the realm of possibility.

Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations.

Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor.

I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

...things are the way they are in our universe because if they weren't, we wouldn't be here to notice.

There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.

All that's different about me is that I still ask the questions most people stopped asking at age five.

Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative.

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

Those who staying with the wrong reward,(eg. stay in comfort zone, etc.), long enough will get problem.

I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility.

My sailing system set sail, make it fast, no thoughts of energy or velocity, loll back, let boat drift.

The more we refine our understanding of God to make the concept plausible, the more it seems pointless.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think

The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

At present every coachman and every waiter argues about whether or not the relativity theory is correct.

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